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Object file loading on Windows

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#395 opened on Aug 23, 2017

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Description

The CPU backend is currently broken on windows because it lacks an object file loader (here).

This is the same as what GHCi does, but a bit simpler because we only need to handle the most basic types of relocations etc. Unfortunately we can't use that one due to GHC#13624 (unless that does not affect windows, but I doubt it)

Any windows hackers interested in writing one? @RyanGlScott

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Study the existing ELF object loader in the codebase and implement a COFF loader for Windows, handling basic relocations.
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